Educational institutions and governing practices are increasingly augmented with digital
database technologies that function as new kinds of policy instruments. This article surveys …

From US-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics
of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to …

Big data, algorithms, data mining, analytics, machine learning and AI have become some of
the most significant technical developments and concepts of recent years. Today's most …

An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering
analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.“Big Data” is …

The development of information and communication technologies accompanied by the
exponential growth of electronic scholarly publications and computer archives has led, on …

Despite improved digital access to scholarly knowledge in recent decades, scholarly
communication remains exclusively document-based. In this form, scholarly knowledge is …

Universities are increasingly organized and managed through digital data. The collection,
processing and dissemination of Higher Education data is enabled by complex new data …

In this analytical essay, part of Harvard Educational Review's symposium on Platform
Studies in Education, Ben Williamson, Kalervo N. Gulson, Carlo Perrotta, and Kevin …

Are algorithms ruling the world today? Is artificial intelligence making life-and-death
decisions? Are social media companies able to manipulate elections? As we are confronted …

It is arguably human nature—and most certainly bureaucratic nature—to want to quantify our
successes and failures. The ability to calculate a numerical value to represent the progress …